Placencia

Placencia is a tourist village of about 1600 people at the southern tip of the resort Placencia peninsula in . It offers tourist bars, kayaking, snorkelling, diving, saltwater fly fishing, and whale shark watching.
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  • Village with about 1,590 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 40 feet (10 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code PLJ
  • Description: town in Belize
  • Also known as
    “Placencia Village”
    “Placentia”
    “Placentia Village”
    “Plasencia”
    “Point Placentia”
    “Punta Placencia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Placencia Airport.
Nosferattus, CC0.
Aerodrome
is an that serves Placencia, .

Placencia

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Latitude
16.5156° or 16° 30′ 56″ north
Longitude
-88.3672° or 88° 22′ 2″ west
UN/LOCODE
BZ PLJ
Open location code
768HGJ8M+64
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2789784062
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3581447
Wiki­data ID
Q2097877

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Urdu—“Placencia” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Placencia (Belize)”
  • Basque: “Placencia”
  • Cebuano: “Placencia”
  • Dutch: “Placencia”
  • French: “Placencia”
  • German: “Placencia”
  • Hebrew: “פלאסנסיה”
  • Irish: “Placencia”
  • Italian: “Placencia”
  • Japanese: “プラセンシア (ベリーズ)”
  • Japanese: “プラセンシア”
  • Low German: “Placencia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Placencia”
  • Norwegian: “Placencia”
  • Polish: “Placencia”
  • Portuguese: “Placencia”
  • Russian: “Пласенсия (город, Белиз)”
  • Russian: “Пласенсия”
  • Spanish: “Placencia”
  • Swedish: “Placencia”
  • Urdu: “پلاسینشیا”

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